The last time Albion won five games in a row, they were top of the Championship and flying under Slaven Bilić. They actually won six games in a row from 4th November to 8th December 2019, a run that was ended when the Croat opted to rest his two star players in Pereira and Diangana for the trip to Cardiff…
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Albion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 21 games
A fourth successive victory for Carlos Corberán’s team lefts them up to 17th place in the table on 26 points from 21 games which is a better tally than any of Albion’s second tier teams between 1989 and 1997. It is the first time that the Baggies have won four successive league games for two years, with the previous occasion…
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A wonderful goal from Brandon Thomas-Asante secured Albion’s third successive victory and a third successive clean sheet. It is the first time that the Baggies have recorded three wins in a row since the early days of Valérien Ismaël’s reign when they won four league games in succession in August 2021, albeit there was a 6-0 home defeat by Arsenal…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 19 games
Carlos Corberán’s Albion recorded back-to-back victories for the first time this season to move onto 20 points, still in the bottom three but just four points off 13th-placed Sunderland. The last time Albion won three games in a row was at the start of last season under Valérien Ismaël when they won four consecutive league games after the initial opening…
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Okay Yokuşlu’s first goal for the Baggies secured a massive win for Albion and registered Carlos Corberán’s first points as head coach. It moved the Baggies off the bottom of the table, for 24 hours at least, above the Spaniard’s former club, Huddersfield Town, ahead of their match at home to Sunderland on Wednesday evening. Game 18 in the 1994/95…
Read MoreAlbion’s Second Tier Season Comparison – 17 games
A third straight defeat for Albion leaves them bottom of the table and it is now the club’s worst start to a second tier season all on its own. Alan Buckley’s side in 1994 picked up a point in game 17, Bob Taylor equalising Kim Grant’s opener for Charlton Athletic at the Valley, moving them onto 15, one more than…
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